As well as these changes, we've got the latest hotfixes and the new free-to-play hero set in Heroes of the Storm:

Blizzard

We've recently implemented an often requested feature to enable cross-realm raiding for Siège d’Orgrimmar. Cross-realm BattleTag™ and Real ID friends can now raid together and take the fight to Garrosh on Normal or Heroic difficulty. Players will be able to earn greater rewards such as Rênes du loup de guerre kor'kron or the title of Conqueror/Libérateur d’Orgrimmar; both of which aren't available to be earned within Flexible or Raid Finder difficulty.This change is currently live.Correct -- current-tier Mythic raiding in Warlords will still be limited to players from a single server. In the meantime, though, this change may help guilds that are trying to recruit and grow in preparation for Mythic raiding. As for realm firsts, realm firsts are guild achievements; you need to be in a guild group, which is by definition 8/10 or 20/25 members coming from a single guild on a single server. You could theoretically have a couple of guests from a different server and still claim the realm first, but ultimately 80% of the group still has to be from the same guild.Nope. Apologies if that torpedoes any hopes of selling Kor'kron Juggernauts to the entire continent.As for loot and lockout questions above, nothing about this affects either of those. Loot is not personal in Normal/Heroic; the exact loot setting depends on the raid leader, as always. As for lockouts, Normal lockouts will continue to prevent you from entering a raid in which a boss is alive that you've already killed during a given week. Heroic still uses fixed lockouts, and once you're saved to one Heroic ID, you cannot zone into any different Heroic ID that week.

Hotfixes for March 18th

Blizzard

March 18

Character Boost

Boosted characters now start in the Shrine of Two Moons for the Horde and Shrine of the Seven Stars for the Alliance.

Resolved a number of questing and phasing issues for boosted characters.

Classes

RogueTalents Resolved an issue where Vanish modified by Glyph of Vanish was incorrectly causing the Subterfuge effect to trigger twice. Vanish will now cancel its effect when the duration of Subterfuge expires.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Siege of Orgrimmar Cross-realm raid groups have been enabled for Siege of Orgrimmar on both Normal and Heroic difficulty. A forum thread has been created with more information on this change.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Resolved an issue where Monks were unable to use Roll, Chi Torpedo, or Flying Serpent Kick while carrying the flag.

Isle of Thunder

Resolved an issue where base camps for the Kirin Tor Offensive, Sunreaver Onslaught, and other areas on the isle may incorrectly revert to an earlier progression stage.

Latest Heroes of the Storm free to play Heroes:

Blizzard

Please note that the Heroes of the Storm service is still down for maintenance, and we'll let you know here as soon as the game is back online.

We’re currently in the process of updating the free-to-play hero rotation with a set of six fresh heroes, who will stand ready to start smashing towers at a moment’s notice once Heroes is back online. We’ll bring in a new set of free-to-play heroes every Tuesday from here on out. Here are your free heroes for this week:

Arthas

E.T.C.

Muradin

Tassadar

Witch Doctor

Zeratul

(If you’re playing on a brand new account, you’ll start with five free hero slots until you reach Level 7 with the experience and progression system. At that point, you'll unlock a sixth free-to-play hero slot.)

This post will be updated each week during the Tech Alpha whenever we refresh the free hero rotation, and you can expect the next set of free heroes on Tuesday, March 25. Make sure to do some brawling with this week’s roster before they rotate out of the pool!

If you'd like to see hero rotations from previous weeks, we'll be posting them as replies to this thread.

Commentaires

Commentaire de Saruya

Well blow me. Thought they said they'd need Warlords cross realm tech, and that it wouldn't be feasible pre-6.0?

Now what about that offline option for Real ID? Eh Blizz?

Commentaire de harpuiablade

on 2014-03-18T15:03:51-05:00

Woah! That's wild. Here I am thinking it was just a normal Tuesday then this change happens.

Commentaire de Stormvadret

on 2014-03-18T15:04:26-05:00

LF team for normal Garrosh. 549 hunter.Add HASELHOOF#2766

no but seriously great to see this. still to complete the raid.

Commentaire de ildon

on 2014-03-18T15:04:31-05:00

Well *!@#.

Commentaire de Baptisten

on 2014-03-18T15:42:46-05:00

Quite surprising!

Commentaire de tankform

on 2014-03-18T15:47:17-05:00

Yay, now I can start progressing with my friends cross-realm :) pretty nice since my alt on that server is too bad to join them, so joining with my main is finally an option, GREAT change! :)If anyone needs a 542 ilvl destro lock for weekend runs (EU), I'd be up for it #Divined2326.

Commentaire de LostThunder

on 2014-03-18T15:58:26-05:00

Not yet Live in EU?

Commentaire de rodalpho

on 2014-03-18T16:07:31-05:00

Smart change, as more and more people quit due to the 6-9 months remaining in SoO, raiding guilds will be able to fill those slots from other servers.

A better change would be to release the expansion sooner, but hey, beggars/choosers.

Commentaire de Rankkor

on 2014-03-18T18:18:49-05:00

O_O

*feints*

Commentaire de forgottenring

on 2014-03-18T19:36:46-05:00

Boosted characters now start in the Shrine of Two Moons for the Horde and Shrine of the Seven Stars for the Alliance.